Antonis Skokos

Multiple award-winning film composer www.AntonisSkokos.com (born in Athens, Greece) has worked as a conductor, arranger, pianist, and musical director with the most accomplished Greek artists in the world today. There are numerous albums where he has worked as producer, composer, arranger, and pianist/keyboardist in collaboration with all the best-selling artists in the Greek music industry. Musical albums where Antonis has participated as the producer, composer, arranger, and pianist/keyboardist have gained multi-platinum, platinum, and gold status. The list includes 7 gold records, 4 platinum records, and 2 multi-platinum records.

In 2020, moving to the US with his family, he has already impressed by winning several 'Best Film Score' awards for the short film: "Me, My Meds & Mother" by US film director and producer, Kathleen Conway.

Playing the piano since age six he was notably influenced by his father, drummer, and member of the legendary band "The Forminx", alongside the academy award-winning composer Vangelis (Blade runner & Chariots of fire). Antonis grew up in a highly artistic and musical environment, given the godfather of Antonis' father was Dimitris Mitropoulos the conductor of the New York Philharmonic. As a jingle composer for the Greek television show "Mporo" presented by Anna Drouza and "Oti Kalytero" he was promoted to musical director. He was a musical director, arranger, conductor, and pianist for the television show "Auti einai i Zoi Sou", broadcast by Ant1 Channel and the television show "12" presented by Nikos Mastorakis (Greek presenter and film director) broadcast by Alpha Channel. Antonis became the musical director, arranger, conductor, and pianist of the television show "Tha Peis ki Ena Tragoudi", presented by Andreas Mikroutsikos. The show was broadcast by the famed Skai Channel Greece and created as a show-twin to the American television show "Singing Bee". Additionally, he was a musical director for the Greek smash hit music television show "Amstel Live" produced by Marc Jansen (producer of "The Voice Greece" and "The Voice Kids" in the US.).

In Europe, Antonis arranged for various music groups in pop, funk, jazz, and R&B music and spent time working as a jingle composer for a number of shows in French television as well as broadcastings for Radio France.

At 11 years old, he studied at the Athens Conservatory with Pari Derebei and Dora Bakopoulou also pursuing studies of music theory, harmony, counterpoint, and fugue, with Kostantinos Kydoniatis. He completed a 3-year course in jazz and improvisation with Markos Alexiou, and a 2-year course in music for theatre and cinema with George Bountouvis and Dimitris Papadimitriou.

Awarded the distinguished 4-year graduate scholarship by the "Onassis public benefit foundation", this enabled him to study at the CIM (Jazz Music Conservatory of Paris, France). At cim he studied classical piano with Sammy Abenaim, jazz and big band orchestration with Ivan Jullien (former orchestrator of Michelle Legrand), piano jazz improvisation with Kenny Werner, arrangement, instrumentation and composition with the famous American jazz composers, arrangers and conductors Douglas Clare Fisher and Bill Dobbins, as well as composition, arrangement, and instrumentation with Derry Hall, Ivan Julien, and Denis Bioteau. Antonis was awarded a superior degree in composition, arrangement, and orchestration with high honors and he received the silver medal by the President of Honor Henri Dutilleux. Further, he studied at the Conservatory of Genevilliers analysis of music sheets and scores and formation musicale, with Chistof Roger. Finally, Antonis studied counterpoint and Fugue at the 'Ecole Normal' with Thierry Machuel, and composition, orchestration of classical music, and conducting at the 'Schola Cantorum' with Patris Sciortino (student of Igor Stravinsky).

Antonis received both degrees with high distinction and bestowed the Golden Prize award.